this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2024
26 points (96.4% liked)

Creepy Wikipedia

3914 readers
24 users here now

A fediverse community for curating Wikipedia articles that are oddly fascinating, eerily unsettling, or make you shiver with fear and disgust

image

Guidelines:
  1. Follow the Code of Conduct

  2. Do NOT report posts YOU don't consider creepy

  3. Strictly Wikipedia submissions only

  4. Please follow the post naming convention: Wikipedia Article Title - Short Synopsis

  5. Tick the NSFW box for submissions with inappropriate thumbnails.

  6. Please refrain from any offensive language/profanities in the posts titles, unless necessary (e.g. it's in the original article's title).

Mandatory:

If you didn't find an article "creepy," you must announce it in the thread so everyone will know that you didn't find it creepy

image

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
top 5 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I’ve been in there. There’s still stains all over the walls and floors

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Number of inmates: 18,145 prisoners, probably more

Killed: 18,133

Every statistic about the Cambodian Genocide is staggering.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Holy shit - that’s horrific. Obligatory fuck Henry Kissinger. Rest in piss.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Same and went to the killing field outside the city later on. The driver cried when talking about the family members he lost. Most harrowing day of my life, totally redefined the lower limit of "how badly things can go wrong".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

There's also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_caves_of_Phnom_Sampeau

Near Battambang. The caves have a skylight and victims were either killed, usually with a knife or blow to the head, and thrown in, or thrown in alive.